Best Selling Books by Kevin Brooks

Joe is hooked from the moment he sees Candy. What is it that catches his eye? Is it her hair, her smile, or just the way she''s standing? When they chat over coffee there''s an instant attraction - but can love ever be this sweet?

I can''t believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no windows. No doors. The elevator is the only way in or out. What''s he going to do to me? What am I going to do? People are really quite simple, and they have simple needs. Food, water, light, space, privacy. Maybe a small measure of dignity. A bit of freedom. What happens when someone simply takes all that away?

Caitlin''s life changes the moment she sees Lucas walking across the causeway one hot summer''s day. He is the strangest, most beautiful boy she has ever seen - and when she meets him, her world comes alive.

Pale, blubbery Moo silently endures a rain of spite each day. But when he sees a murder, he must take a stand, and choose between truth and lies, weakness and strength...

Late one night, two brothers learn that their sister has died in the worst way imaginable. She''s found strangled, hundreds of miles from home. Ruben is the smarter of the two, with a gift for getting into other people''s hearts. Cole doesn''t care if he lives or dies. Together they set out to find their own answers and retrace Rachel''s final journey.

An electrifying novel from the Carnegie medal-winning Kevin Brooks. Now a Netflix movie starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones). Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it''s having an extraordinary effect... Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know and see more than he could ever imagine. And with incredible power comes knowledge - and a choice. Seek revenge on the violent gangs that rule his estate and assaulted his friend Lucy, or keep quiet? Tom has control when everything else is out of control. But it''s a dangerous price to pay. And the consequences are terrifying. . . ''A compulsive, atmospheric mystery'' Sunday Times ''A masterly writer, and this book would put many authors of ''grown up'' detective fiction to shame'' Mail on Sunday Kevin Brooks is the award-winning author of nine gripping teenage novels, usually with a thrilling detective twist. His novels, Being, Black Rabbit Summer, Killing God (published as Dawn in the USA) and Naked are also available from Penguin. Kevin''s brand new novel, The Bunker Diary, will be published in 2013. If you enjoyed iBoy and want to get inside more of your favourite books, then check out spinebreakers.co.uk for exclusive author interviews, competitions, and much more.

Magical realism and gritty mystery meet in Brooks''s provocative dissection of family, friendship, and faith. "A tense psychological thriller...hard-hitting."--Publishers WeeklyDawn Bundy lives in a cave. In her head. Where''s she''s been hiding for two years. Hiding behind headphones. From the two hottest girls at school, in their impossibly short skirts and unbearably tight tops, their skin close enough to touch. Not talking to her mother, not about what matters. Not thinking of her dad, the drug addict, the ex-con, born-again but far gone. Two years is a long time. Enough for the cave to grow so small that her breath feels like stone in her throat. Two years is no time at all. Nowhere near enough to forget. To pretend that nothing happened. Deep one perfect morning.

After doctors snake a fiber-optic tube down Robert Smiths throat, what they discover doesn''t make medical sense. Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, Robert embarks on a violent odyssey to find out exactly who--and what--he is.

Just like old times. Just the five of them. Saturdaynight. Nicole asked. How could Pete say no?But past hurts among the former childhoodfriends soon surface, and the party''s over beforeit ever begins. The group splinters off into thedarkness. Into the noise and heat and chaos ofthe carnival.The next morning, a girl is missing. Pete doesn''tknow what--or who--to believe: Could one of theold gang be to blame? Could one of their ownbe a killer?

A boy raised by wild dogs fights for survival in this gripping post apocalyptic tale by an acclaimed Carnegie Medalist. Jeet is a dogchild, raised by the wild dogs who killed his parents, then recaptured and “rehumanized.” He now lives with one of only two remaining human communities in the world, besieged by the much larger enemy clan. In a wasteland shaped by war, starvation, and haunting violence, Jeet grapples with his identity — he misses his wild family, and the people of his clan see dogchilds as less than human. When the human clans begin to prepare for a final, bloody battle against each other, Jeet is at the center. His struggle and his relationship with another rehumanized dogchild shed light on what it means to be human or inhuman — and what it takes to be a survivor. In his most ambitious novel yet, Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks offers a breathless work of speculative fiction that will have readers at the edge of their seat.

Following a death-defying escape from the hands of a criminal overlord, young PI Travis Delaney thinks he might finally be getting closer to finding out who killed his parents, and why. But things are about to get a whole lot more deadly . . . One moment Travis is trapped in an armed face-off in the offices of Delaney & Co, private investigators. The next terrorists have stormed the building and he''s been abducted. Kept captive alongside Winston, the rogue security officer who Travis believes is responsible for his parents'' death, Travis is quickly plagued by more questions than answers. As the truth begins to emerge, Travis is faced with the ultimate dilemma: how do you choose between saving your own life or saving the life of someone you love?

Fourteen-year-old Travis Delaney is trying to get his life back on track following the crash that killed his parents last summer. The police called it an accident, but Travis knows better. His parents were on to something, and whatever they were investigating . . . ended with their murder. Since Travis''s Grandad took over Delaney and Co, things have finally started to look up. But when his private investigation partner, Courtney, is attacked following a routine inquiry into a local business, Travis can''t help but get involved, even though he''s supposed to be focusing on his own investigation into thefts at school. But what he discovers draws him into more danger than he ever could have imagined. Tangled up in a web of gang warfare, dirty police and secret organisations, Travis needs to find a way out. But at the heart of it all is a traitor. Someone close to Travis. Someone he''s supposed to trust. But trust is a dangerous thing.

London, 1976: A summer of creation, destruction, and blistering heat. Lili Garcia stands at the edge of London''s growing punk scene, playing bass with one of city''s wildest bands. The group''s success has only strained things between Lili and Curtis Ray, her cool, rebellious boyfriend and bandmate. Lili soon meets William Bonney—a guitarist from Northern Ireland. William is as reserved as Curtis Ray is loud, haunted by the life he left behind, but every bit as brilliant a musician. William''s quiet confidence moves Lili to search for what she really wants. But the secrets of William''s past could mean danger for both of them . . .

Marty Pig tiene, a sus catorce años, una vida complicada: se burlan de su nombre, tiene un padre alcohólico y está enamorado de su vecina, que tiene novio. Unos días antes de Navidad, se encuentra con que el cadáver de su padre yace en la sala y tiene dos opciones: llamar a la policía o esconder el cuerpo y fingir inocencia. Martyn opta por la segunda, sobre todo, porque está harto de que no lo dejen tranquilo. Logra salir avante de la investigación policial, pero descubre, a su pesar, que su amor platónico lo traicionó para quedarse con una sorpresiva herencia que le pertenecía por derecho.

When Travis Delaney''s parents die in a car crash, Travis is devastated. In a bid to pull himself out of his grief, he starts to look into the last case they were investigating at the private investigation agency they ran. What starts as a minor distraction soon becomes a sinister, unbelievable mystery - and Travis is determined to solve it. Why were his parents looking for a missing boy when the boy''s family says he isn''t missing? Where is the boy himself? And why would a man who is in surveillance photos taken by Travis''s parents turn up at their funeral? As Travis searches for answers, he starts to have the chilling realization that the question he should be asking is the one he most wants to avoid: Was the accident that killed his parents really what it seemed? An intriguing, exciting adventure from a master of suspense.

PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen years ago his wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Craine found her body in their bed. And since then, to escape the pain and the unanswered questions, he has buried himself in work by day, and whisky by night. But one phone call changes everything. The mother of missing young woman Anna Gerrish calls on his services, and Craine soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of corruption and lies that leads back into the murky waters of the past - and to the night that Craine has spent over a decade trying to forget. As he delves deeper and deeper into the case everything gets increasingly, terrifyingly, personal. And it''s down to Craine to stop history from repeating itself ...

PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all - the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won''t let go. But within hours he stumbles across the dead body of a young girl on the beach. When the police arrive the body has inexplicably disappeared. Or - in his already tormented state - did Craine imagine it in the first place? Determined to get at the truth, Craine starts asking questions. But it seems no one on the island is talking. And all too soon he finds himself tangled up in a deadly network of fear and violence. Someone has a dark secret to keep, and Craine is getting in the way...